Category: Europe09

Another late train. This time due to an accident.

And I think all French waiters think they are magicians. They bring you a menu, they say ‘voila’. They bring the food, ‘voila’. They bring the bill, ‘voila’.

We’ve been able to see almost everything we wanted. We had to drop a few things, but not too many. We were a bit too aggressive with our planning. But better that than sitting around doing nothing.

Tomorrow we take the TGV to our final city, Paris, a 4 hour ride. I can’t believe it’s been three weeks already. The last couple of days I have had thoughts of home. It’s a struggle to keep translating things, and worrying if you’ve translated the cancelled train message correctly. It’s also frustrating not understanding a word anyone says, except for some form of yes, no, please, thank you. Everyone speaks a little English, most people speak it fluently. More words than we know in their language at least

Tonight on our way to dinner we got rained on. We have seen rain on travel days from the airports or from trains, but other than a couple of drops in London and a light sprinkle on our way to dinner in Bacharach, we’ve had great weather. Last night was a heavy downpour, the thunder woke us up, but we were dry in Orange. Then it started pouring right before we left for dinner, but stopped by the time we went back to the hotel.